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The SOHS Sawyer Collection

The images presented here are part of a donation we are calling the Sawyer Collection. The images have come from multiple photography studios, some of them unidentified. Most were taken by the Kiser Studio of Portland, Oregon in the 'Teens and early 'Twenties, especially of rugged scenes in Crater Lake and Glacier National Parks and along the Columbia River. A small collection was taken 1905-07 by photographer H. G. Peabody of Massachusetts and Maine urban and coastal scenes. An anonymous collection portrays architectural and rural views taken in Central Mexico in the same era.

The collection was saved and cared for by William Gruber, who had a long working relationship with the Portland photography studio Sawyer Service Inc. Gruber was the inventor of the popular View-Master, which he produced in collaboration with Sawyer’s. According to the donor, in 1939 Sawyer’s was poised to dispose of these glass plate negatives in order to focus on the View-Master, when Gruber offered to take the plates. Over the past eight decades, the Gruber family has meticulously maintained the collection of approximately 3,000 plates, weighing roughly half a ton. Southern Oregon Historical Society received the plates as a donation in 2019, and has made them publicly available with additional grant funding from Oregon Parks and Recreation and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

 SAWYER COLLECTION INDEX        WILLIAM GRUBER       WHEN THE COLLECTION ARRIVED AT SOHS     

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SWY2849

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet
SWY2850

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet and Singleshot Mountain
SWY2851

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet
SWY2852

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet
SWY2853

Glacier National Park--Taft Party, Lake St Mary Chalets
SWY2854

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet and Pack Train
SWY2855

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Indian Steer Killing
SWY2856

Glacier National Park--Lake McDermott
SWY2857

Glacier National Park--Grinnell Mountain from McDermott Peak (Snow)
SWY2858

Glacier National Park--McDermott Chalet and Grinnell Mountain
SWY2859

Glacier National Park--McDermott Chalet and Mt Wilbur
SWY2860

Glacier National Park--McDermott Chalet and Gould Mountains
SWY2861

Glacier National Park--McDermott Lake and Grinnell Mountain
SWY2862

Glacier National Park--McDermott Lake, Grinnell and Gould Mountain--copyright 1912
SWY2863

Glacier National Park--McDermott Lake and Mt Wilbur
SWY2864

Glacier National Park--McDermott Falls and Grinnell Mountain
SWY2865

Glacier National Park--McDermott Falls and Grinnell Mountain
SWY2866

Glacier National Park, Swiftcurrent Region--Lake McDermott Panorama #3
SWY2867

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary
SWY2868

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Panorama
SWY2869

Oregon Trunk Railway Celilo Bridge First Train June 5, 1911
SWY2870

Oregon Trunk Railway Celilo Bridge Christening June 5, 1911
SWY2871

Oregon Trunk Railway Celilo Bridge June 5, 1911
SWY2872

Mt Hood Overlooking Cooks Addition, Hood River in Distance
SWY2873

White Salmon--Mt Hood Looking Across River from near North Salmon
SWY2874

White Salmon--Mt Hood Looking Across River from near North Salmon
SWY2875

White Salmon--Mt Hood & Hood River from Point Below North Salmon
SWY2876

White Salmon--Mt Hood Overlooking Cooks Addition, Hood River Valley in Distance
SWY2877

White Salmon--Looking Down the Columbia from near North Salmon--Underwood Mountain to Right, Hood River to Left in Distance
SWY2878

White Salmon--SP&S Track near White Salmon, Underwood Mountain in Distance
SWY2879

White Salmon--Down the Columbia River from Cooks Road
SWY2880

White Salmon--Down the Columbia River from a Point Just Above Underwood
SWY2881

White Salmon--Up the Columbia River from a Point Below North Salmon
SWY2882

White Salmon, Washington--Underwood Mountain
SWY2883

White Salmon, Washington--Overlook Farm and Columbia River near North Salmon--\"The Aerie,\" George F. Aggers, Owner
SWY2884

White Salmon, Washington--\"The Aerie\" and Columbia River, \"The Eagle\'s Nest,\" near White Salmon, C. W. Reckers, Owner
SWY2885

White Salmon, Washington--\"The Aerie\" and Columbia River, \"The Eagle\'s Nest,\" near White Salmon, C. W. Reckers, Owner
SWY2886

White Salmon, Washington--Jewett\'s Farm Resort Waterfall
SWY2887

White Salmon, Washington--Jewett\'s Log Cabin
SWY2888

White Salmon, Washington--Jewett\'s Log Cabin
SWY2889

Collins, Montana--Collins Station, Wind Mountain in Distance
SWY2890

Collins, Montana--Collins Station, Springs Hotel
SWY2891

Collins, Montana--Looking Across the Columbia from Collins Hot Springs Hotel
SWY2892

Maryhill, Washington--Road and Farm House, Maryhill Disrict
SWY2893

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SWY2894

Maryhill, Washington--Wagon Road in Canyon, Maryhill District
SWY2895

Maryhill, Washington--Orchard in Bloom, Maryhill District
SWY2896

Maryhill, Washington--Looking Down River from Wagon Road at Maryhill
SWY2897

Deschutes, Oregon--Panorama #1, Cascades Range from Long Butte
SWY2898

Deschutes, Oregon--Panorama #2, Cascades Range from Long Butte